Hame-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN TINGLEY, OF POTTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAME-FASTENER.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 22,096, dated November 16, 1858.

fo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN TINGLEY, of Potter county, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Metallic Haine-Fastener; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

I construct two hooks, each having an acute angular catch as seen at Figure 2, letter A, and Fig. 3, letter E. There is also a projection formed on each of the hooks as seen at. B, Fig. Q, and at C, Fig. 3. The former has a notch in it, and the latter is shaped to fit the notch when they come together as seen' at B and C, Fig. 4.

D, is a steel spring inlaid and fastened to the handle of the face plate F, and is so placed that it presses B and C together, causing t-hem to lock and hold the fastener in a closed position as seen at Fig. l in perspective. The face plate F is provided with two perpendicular posts upon which the shank of each hook is placed by means of the hole as seen at N and O, Fig. 4. It is operated by placingthe hook L in one eye of the hame and the other in the opposite eye when in an open or unclosed position. Then by a semirevolution of the face plate by means of the handle the fastener will be closed, and again by a .slight pressure toward the breast of the horse, and downward, the spring will be thrown back and the catch unlocked.

K is a spring by which the fastener is kept in the eye of the hame. They are cast of malleable iron and made of different lengths.

lst. I do not Claim, broadly, a metallic hame fastener, for I know there has been at least one patent granted for a metallic fastener.

I claim- The combination of two hooks coupled together by a semirevolving face plate; and the spring' D, Fig. Ll, the catch B and t-he projection C, when made and combined substantially as set forth, and for the purpose 

